Stories happen to those who tell them.
THUCYDIDESRight, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Hope, danger’s comforter.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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